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Overview

In Beverly Hills Cop, Axel Foley is introduced
as a Detroit cop who, after
the murder of his friend, travels to California to investigate and
track down the killer, who he believes operate an arts dealership
as a cover in Beverly Hills. He teams up with two
reluctant detectives, Billy Rosewood and John Taggart, from the
Beverly Hills police force who were supposed to keep a watch on
him, especially after seeing Foley's different approach to tackling
the situations which were considered unacceptable by the chief of
the local police. In Beverly Hills Cop II, Axel
Foley returns to Beverly Hills, after finding out that
Captain Andrew Bogomil was shot. He once again teams up with
Detective Billy Rosewood and Sgt. John Taggart, who, reluctantly
and against the police chief's orders, help Foley to find out the
person responsible for Bogomil's shooting. Axel, Billy, and Taggart
soon discover that the alphabet robberies, a series of robberies
that have been going on in the area, are masterminded by weapons
kingpin Maxwell Dent. With this information, Axel, Billy, and
Taggart try to find Dent and Karla. In the 1994 sequel, Beverly
Hills Cop III, Eddie Murphy's character, Axel Foley
returns to Beverly Hills once again. During an assignment, his
boss, Inspector Todd gets killed, and certain evidence points
towards an amusement park called "Wonderworld." Upon arriving in
Beverly Hills, Axel looks up his old friend, Billy Rosewood who has
attained the title of DDOJSIOC (Deputy Director of Joint Special
Inter Operational Command). Taggart and Bogomil have retired and a
new detective called Jon Flint (played by Hector Elizondo) is Rosewood's new
partner.

Future

A fourth Beverly Hills Cop film is in development. The
first news arrived in 2006.[16]
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer had stated his
intention to resurrect the franchise, but eventually gave up his
option to produce the film. Lorenzo di Bonaventura was
slated to produce the film.[17]
Several scripts had reportedly been produced, the latest a fusion
of several of the previous versions. The film had officially been
given a greenlight,
and the film was said to be still in development.[18] The
latest news on the project was that Murphy was reportedly happy
with the current outline, which was described as an attempt to
recapture "the feel of the original".[19] In
May 2008, Brett
Ratner was officially named director for the project. Also it
was stated that there were no writers for the project as of yet,
and that they were still looking. Eddie Murphy is set to reprise his role as
Detective Axel Foley.
It is unknown whether Judge Reinhold, John
Ashton, Ronny Cox or
Bronson
Pinchot will return to reprise their roles.[20]
Inspired by the success of Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Paramount
Pictures is said to be aiming for a 2009 production start, in
time for a 2010 release.[21]

Director Brett
Ratner was reportedly hoping that the film would get a PG-13
rating.[22]
Ratner later dismissed the statement, insisting that the film would
be getting the franchise's standard R rating.[23] In a
recent interview with Extra TV, Eddie Murphy
expressed doubt in returning as Foley as "the movie wasn't ready to
be done."[24]
However, in a later interview with MTV, Murphy stated he was not retiring and that he
would be returning for the fourth installment. One reason he stated
was that "the third Beverly Hills Cop was horrible!" and
that he "didn't want to leave it like that".[25][26]
Michael Brandt and Derek Haas were hired as screenwriters for the
film.[27]Harold
Faltermeyer's Axel F is
reported to be returning for the fourth installment. Director Brett
Ratner has been quoted as saying "It'll be back but it'll be a
whole new interpretation." [28] In
October 2009, Brett Ratner said that he was trying to persuade
Judge Reinhold to return as well as John Ashton to reprise their
roles in the previous films.[29]
According to Moviehole, Beverly Hills Cop 4 producer Lorenzo di
Bonaventura will wipe the slate clean by completely ignoring the
last two Beverly Hills Cop sequels, making a direct sequel to Eddie
Murphy’s 1984 comedy classic. That means detectives Billy Rosewood
(Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) will most likely
return. According to reports, Reinhold is already confirmed for the
new sequel, and Paramount Pictures is currently in talks with
Ashton. Brett Ratner (Rush Hour trilogy, X-Men: The Last Stand) is
attached to direct Beverly Hills Cop 4 with Derek Haas and Michael
Brandt (3:10 to Yuma, Wanted) writing the script. The pair are
adapting a script they wrote called Dying Day; a dark action film
about two FBI field agents in LA who discover their entire unit is
corrupt. The updated story will remain dark, while leaving room for
Murphy to step in and funny it up. That’s similar to what he did in
the original, when he worked from a script originally destined to
become a Sylvester Stallone action film. Beverly Hills Cop 4 is
currently scheduled to be released in 2012.[30]